The St. Clement Girls Volleyball Team will be playing in the State Tournament for the second year in a row.

Girls Volleyball: Lady Anchors return to State Tournament

For the second year in a row, after years of disappointing seasons, the St. Clement Girls Volleyball Team secured a spot in the State Tournament.

By William Tauro

Alderman Tom Taylor was sworn in on Tuesday evening as the Somerville Lions Club’s newest Lion. Pictured L to R: Somerville Lions Club President Gene Brune, Lion Tom Taylor and District Governor Tom Kerr.

Dennis Daly author of the poetry collection The Custom House ( Ibbetson Street Press) has reviewed a new collection of poetry brought to you by Somerville’s Ibbetson Street Press, God Lights His Candles  by Dorothy E. Morris. I decided to use Daly’s review in my Off the Shelf  column this week.

Keith Tornheim

Keith Tornheim is a biochemistry professor at Boston University School of Medicine.  He was a co-winner of a Great Lakes College Association poetry contest in 1967 and is now a relapsed poet, especially for the last eleven years.  Some poems have recently been published in Ibbetson Street,Poetica, and Spare Change News, as well as previously in Lyrical Somerville. His poems have been a part of High Holiday and other services of his congregation (see www.shirhadash-ma.org/poetry.html).

President Barack Obama has been projected as having won his re-election bid for a second term, defeating Republican challenger Mitt Romney. In the Massachusetts Senate race, Elizabeth Warren is projected as having beaten incumbent Scott Brown.

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– Photos by Donald Norton, Bobbie Toner and Terence Clarey

Chief Thomas Pasquarello announced that starting today, persons calling 911 to report a sick or injured person, will receive additional telephone support while medical help is on the way.  The program, called Emergency Medical Dispatch, is a State 911 mandated program that requires all 911 centers to provide medical and pre-arrival instructions to callers who are with sick or injured persons while help is being dispatched.   The service is being provided by Cataldo Ambulance Service, the emergency medical service provider for Somerville.

Firefighters raise a ladder during a house fire at 84 Wheatland Street on November 3, 2012. – Photo by Ed Morrissey.

On Saturday, November 3 at 4:47 p.m., the Somerville Fire Department responded to a reported house fire at 84 Wheatland Street. Fire companies arrived to find flames coming out of a first floor bedroom window of an occupied, three unit dwelling.

Participation in the General Election on Tuesday, November 6, is projected to be at least as high as in 2008, which was a modern record for Somerville.

Because this year’s ballot lists seven ballot questions as well as the usual elected offices, the city anticipates long lines, and will work to keep voting as quick and easy as possible.

By William Tauro & April Terrio

Somerville Animal Control Officer April Terrio and Rachel Taylor responded to a call regarding a coyote sighting in the Assembly Square area Friday.